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Question about whistling tea kettles
jmcquown wrote:
> On 2/11/2019 3:47 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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> > "dsi1"Â* wrote in message
> > ...
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> > On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 8:43:55 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> > > "dsi1"Â* wrote in message
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> > > On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 8:18:30 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
> >>> wrote:
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> >>> > We use an electric tea kettle too,
> > > >
> >>> Another fool....spending extra money just to boil a cup or two of
> >>> water. LOL.
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> > > There's a cultural aspect to this electric kettle thing. My guess
> > > is that many homes in the UK will have one of those and it's
> > > similar to how the Japanese will have automatic rice cookers. The
> > > ones that I saw in the UK was just spiffy. It used induction
> > > heating and could boil water fast because they operate at a
> > > higher wattage than American - 3000W!
> > >
> > > The Japanese also like to have hot water on hand. They favor
> > > insulated vacuum pots rather than the ones the Brits use. These
> > > pots are probably popular because these cultures are likely to
> > > drink tea at any time of the day. Americans don't use these
> > > things because they drink coffee. They mostly make coffee in the
> > > morning or purchase coffee when they need to during the day. You
> > > think they're stupid because you're not a tea drinker.
> > >
> > > ==
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> > > We don't drink tea, but D does drink instant coffee.Â* We do have
> > > an electric kettle AND an electric rice cooker )))
> >
> > In the US, the hotel rooms will usually have a drip coffee maker.
> > Not so in the UK. Luckily, we had plenty of hot water and that
> > instant coffee stuff was really appreciated! We drank a lot of it.
> >
> I wish people would realize if you're in a hotel room and you have an
> electric drip coffee maker (filters provided) you don't actually have
> to use it to make coffee. Put a filter in the basket and pour water
> into reservoir and turn it on. Voila! Hot water will dispense into
> the carage. You can add it to tea bags, tea leaves or even instant
> coffee stuff that you've spooned into a cup.
Umm Jill, she's saying they do not have this in her area of the world
in most hotels. The rest is automatic that we'd use the dripper with
just water.
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